Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Virar, Maharashtra?

No visible passes tonight.

Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking southwest.

Updated Times in local time (IST)19.46°, 72.81°
Also tonight over Virar
Next pass · Thursday 8 Oct
Appears
7:17 pm
southwest, 11°
Highest
7:27 pm
71° southeast
Fades
7:27 pm
southeast, 54°
NESW
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 4 satellitesLaunch 2026-225 · 28 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

13 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 6:45 pm – 6:09 am
No visible passes tonight.

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 6:44 pm – 6:09 am
7:17 pmto 7:27 pm · 10 min
SW → SE, highest 71° SEappears southwest at 11°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 4
7:34 pmto 8:00 pm · 25 min
WSW → WSW, highest 63° WSWappears west-southwest at 10°, high at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 22

Friday 9 Oct

dark 6:43 pm – 6:09 am
7:23 pmto 7:27 pm · 3 min
W → N, highest 49° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 2
7:31 pmto 7:33 pm · 3 min
W → NNW, highest 43° NNWappears west at 12°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3 · easyTrain · 1
7:37 pmto 7:40 pm · 2 min
W → NW, highest 38° NWappears west at 10°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easyTrain · 1
7:49 pmto 8:08 pm · 18 min
W → WNW, highest 23° WNWappears west at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 15

Saturday 10 Oct

dark 6:42 pm – 6:09 am
6:42 pmto 6:54 pm · 13 min
WSW → ENE, highest 70° Nappears west-southwest at 13°, high at the top
≈ mag 2.5 · brightTrain · 18
7:30 pmto 7:33 pm · 3 min
WNW → NNW, highest 23° NNWappears west-northwest at 11°, low at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 2
7:44 pmto 7:46 pm · 2 min
WNW → NNW, highest 20° NNWappears west-northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1

Sunday 11 Oct

dark 6:41 pm – 6:10 am
6:48 pmto 7:08 pm · 19 min
W → NE, highest 31° NNWappears west at 11°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderateTrain · 22

Monday 12 Oct

dark 6:41 pm – 6:10 am
6:40 pmto 6:43 pm · 3 min
NW → NE, highest 21° NNWappears northwest at 20°, low at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faintTrain · 1
6:52 pmto 6:56 pm · 4 min
WNW → NNE, highest 19° NNWappears west-northwest at 12°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 1
7:09 pmto 7:29 pm · 19 min
NW → NNE, highest 16° NNWappears northwest at 10°, low at the top
≈ mag 5 · faintTrain · 22

Tuesday 13 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

no visible passes

Magnitude is an estimate (lower = brighter; 3 is easy, 5 needs a dark sky). Predictions for satellites that are still raising their orbits can shift by a few minutes from one update to the next; check again before you go out. How we compute this.

No visible pass of the International Space Station tonight. Next chance: Saturday 10 Oct at 5:53 am, looking south. The space station is far brighter than Starlink satellites, so it is often the easier thing to spot.

Tiangong, China's space station

2 visible passes in 8 nights

No visible pass of Tiangong over Virar tonight. Next: Tuesday 13 Oct at 6:09 am. It orbits about 386 km up, tilted 41.5° to the equator, and looks like a bright, steady star gliding across the sky.

NightAppearsLookHighestMag ≈
Tuesday 13 Oct6:09 amnorth13° N0.5
Thursday 15 Oct5:46 amnorth-northwest30° NNE0

Local time. Brightness is a rough estimate (±1 magnitude; lower is brighter). How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Virar

Virar is at 19.5°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 6:45 pm until 6:09 am. A Starlink satellite only shows when it is still in sunlight while you are in darkness, so the passes bunch up in the first hours after dusk and the last hours before dawn, not around midnight. Over the next 8 nights we found 13 visible passes (13 in the evening, 0 before dawn); 8 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm: it appears in the southwest, climbs to 71° in the southeast and fades in the southeast at about magnitude 2.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-219 (20 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Virar while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Virar?

No visible passes tonight. Next good chance: Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm, looking southwest.

When is the next Starlink train over Virar?

Thursday 8 Oct at 7:17 pm: 4 satellites from launch 2026-225, appearing in the southwest and reaching 71°.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Virar?

This week most passes appear in the west or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Before you go out